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Born in Lorrane, New York in 1842, Enos M. Barton attended the University of Rochester.
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During the United States. Civil War and prior to 1869, Barton was a telegraph operator. Later that same year, Shawk sold his share to inventor Elisha Gray and the company was renamed the Gray and Barton Company Barton became the secretary of the company.
In 1872, Gray and Barton moved the business to Chicago, Illinois and manufactured typewriter parts, fire alarms, electric light fixtures, telegraph equipment, and related electrical devices.
One of their best customers was the giant Western Union Telegraph Company. In 1887 Barton became president of Western Electric and oversaw the international expansion of the company from its beginning.
In 1908 he retired. He died in 1916 in Biloxi, Mississippi.
In 1926 Graybar Electric Company was spun off from Western Electric to handle distribution of Western Electric products. This new company was named Graybar in memory of Elisha Gray and Enos Barton.
